to fob off, to get rid of a request, a caller, visitor etc., often by means of pretext
çekim: geçmiş wimmelte ab · ortaç abgewimmelt · şimdiki wimmelt ab · ulaç abwimmelnd
eş: ausschlagen, loswerden, zurückweisen
köken: 19th century. Ostensibly from ab- (“off”) + wimmeln (“to teem, to move in a confused crowd”). The meaning could perhaps be understood as “to keep such a crowd away, move out of it”. However, a more satisfying interpretation as “to wave aside” can be based on cognate Low German wiëmeln, wemeln, which also has the sense “to wag, wave”. Compare German abwinken (“wave aside”), abwiegeln (“appease”),…
aile: Abwimmlung
Die Nachbarn wollten mich schon wieder zu ihrer Teerunde einladen, aber ich habe sie möglichst freundlich abgewimmelt.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Proto-Italic *kapsos Latin capsa Old Catalan caixabor. Old Galician-Portuguese caixa Portuguese caixa From Old Galician-Portuguese caixa, borrowed from Old Catalan caixa, from Latin capsa. Compare Sicilian caxa, Spanish caja.
aile: a toque de caixa, caixa chata, caixa clara, caixa d'água, caixa de areia, caixa de câmbio, caixa de coleta, caixa de correio, caixa de costura, caixa de entrada
to separate, part, divide · to fire, dismiss [with elative ‘from’] (to relieve of a duty) · to expel [with elative ‘from’] (to terminate the membership of)
çekim: geçmiş erottanut · şimdiki erottaisi · ulaç erottava
to send or bring down, cause to hang or fall down; drop, flow, shed, sag, let fall · to sink, lower, put down · to cast down, throw, thrust, plunge, drive
çekim: ortaç dēmissus · şimdiki dēmittit · ulaç dēmittēns
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin de- Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *méyth₂eti Proto-Italic *meitō Old Latin mītō Latin mittō Latin dēmittō From de- (“from, away from, down from”) + mittō (“send; emit; throw, cast”).
aile: dēmissē, dēmissīcius, dēmissiō, dēmissus
Animadvertit Caesar unos ex omnibus Sequanos nihil earum rerum facere quas ceteri facerent sed tristes capite demisso terram intueri.